"What's going on?" I asked."Can you ... can you get me home?" she managed between grunts of pain."Shouldn't I take you to my house? My mom can take yo... to a hospital." No ... please trust me. I just need to get home."I trusted her, so I helped her get to her house.Once we got there, I helped her to lay down on the couch, and she askedme to call her mother for her.I went to the phone, which had Melody's mom's work number programed in,so i called. When she answered, I told her what had happened,. Stephanie looked at the others. "Of course, a cheerleader can't beafraid of a little attention, which reminds me of our nextadventure...we're going to relive my favorite holiday, sweetie! Boybait,blindfold yourself."Looking at the black scarf she dropped into my teal-tipped fingers, Icouldn't help but wonder how things had shifted that I was surrounded bya pack of attractive, lithe senior girls and my main worry was whatwould happen if they looked too closely at me when they took off mydiaper.. It’s just that...” she sighed.“It’s just that you are from a wealthy or highborn family,” I finished for her.“How did you know?” she gasped.“I recognized the characteristics. Please continue.”“I asked you not to kill the Captain to save my father. The Knotals took me to remind my father of his place. Their Captain raped me in front of my father and everyone present in the Court. By our custom, my father has one year to avenge my honor or he will be forced to surrender the crown.”I cringed when. That man fell to the sidewalk and fainted from the pain. This was more than enough for the third man who pulled a gun and fired. Were it not for the frozen air armor that Jace was wearing, he would have a very uncomfortable hole in his chest. As it was, the bullet hit Jace and flattened itself on the armor that Jace was wearing.The fool fired three more times, and Jace lost his patience. Jace drew his gun and fired one shot into the belly of the third man. The bullet mushroomed on contact and.